Casey writes Do hard things in his daily planner.
5 am. Waking up early is hard, it is a choice. He does that and go run.
Life is made of a lot of hard things you have to do.
For every action there is an opposite reaction (Newton).
Some hard thing we choose to do, like running. Halloween, 4 days before marathon. His friend Oscar is with him. Goal: 3'30.
With lots of hard but mandatory things the opposite reaction is something like : being paid, becoming smarter... But with running, it is harder to define. Casey is with Roberto, his coach. Casey has a very specific goal. He wants to break the 3 hour mark. He failed 8 times.
5:05am race day. 2 watches. Garmin and Apple watch. He leaves his phone and will record with glasses.
Start. 1 mile, 2 miles... 2 million people looking at 55 000 runners. Chris Koch, is also doing his hard thing: a marathon with no arms and no legs, only pushing his body on a skateboard.
13.1 miles, going well
then something happened. Roberto's job was to pace Casey to break 3 hours. At mile 19 Roberto's hard thing was crushed. A lady crosses just in front of him and crashed into him. Roberto's day was over but he wants Casey to keep going.
Casey was alone for 9 more miles. He can't achieve his goal because Roberto is not there anymore, but at the same time he HAS to do it because Roberto is not there anymore.
You can bail, does it really matter? He can win or loose.
Lots of people encouraging him.
And he wins. That momentary feeling you only get if you achieve a really hard thing.
He succeeded. 2:57!
Roberto is going fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StMltAX0mp0
